Portfolio 2023

Yiming Wang - Portfolio

About Me

I am Yiming, currently a fourth-year undergraduate architecture student at Northeastern University, from Urumqi, China. I am interested in the combination of design and history in architecture and how the problemsolving aspect can be complemented with the artistic aspect of architecture. I am familiar with the 2D and 3D design/modeling applications such as adobe suite and rhino. I am also an amateur photographer.

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Urban Walk-up Housing

The housing project is a repetition of a typical module.

The typical module consists of a front/street and back side. The street side apartments are larger and more traditional 2-bedroom units. The back units are double floored. They are linked with a closed corridor to the adjacent unit and can be combined into a larger unit featuring 4 or more bedrooms. This accommodates living conditions with multiple students or with family members.

Urban Walk-up Housing

The urban walk-up housing project is located in northeastern university. The housing project is designed for graduate students who have a diverse living condition and preferences as well as possible public tenants.

Urban Walk-up Housing

There are 4 different unit types within a single module. The Ground floor units feature a garden on the street side and a small yard on the backside that can be accessed by a bamboo walkway. Balconies are featured on the second-floor units and outdoor terraces are featured on the 3rd and 4th floor street side units.

Urban Walk-up Housing

The massing of the unit is a rectangle with lightwell cutouts on both ends of the unit. The left units are a half level higher to match the egress stairs as well as to create separation of the balconies for privacy reasons. First floor units and upper floor bedrooms also feature skylights to help light the apartment naturally as the modules are fairly close to surrounding buildings.

Urban Walk-up Housing

Urban Walk-up Housing

Urban Walk-up Housing

Chinatown Pavilion

Chinatown pavilion is a temporary installation located next to Chin Park. The pavilion is designed to be a public lounge/library. The structure would be installed from June to September.

The pavilion is separated into two distinctive sections via ground height. The front/street side serves public functions by providing seating area, an open space that can be adapted to accommodate multiple activities. The back side serves more private functions as it contains bookshelves, book-return area, and a dedicated reading bench.

Chinatown Pavilion

Chinatown Pavilion

The massing of the pavilion is inspired from traditional Chinese architecture and garden. The inverse slanted roof, circular doorway, and geometric cutouts for the windows are all simplified and modernized adaptations of traditional architecture elements.

Chinatown Pavilion

Chinatown Pavilion

Chinatown Library

The library consists of trapezoidal structures stacking into each other, creating a central courtyard that is open to the street side. The more public programs such as the lobby are located on the lower floor as they are less susceptible to noise. The central courtyard is also open to the highway as public activities would take place there. The library programs are located on the second and third floor away from the highway side to maintain low noise levels. An accessible green roof is featured. The offices and managerial programs are located in a separate column as the library.

Chinatown Library

Stacking based on differnet programs, forming a central plaza as public recreational space.

Twisting the rectangles to achieve a more dynamic form

Enlarging the rectangles into trapaziod to gain more space internally, as well as create more variations in form.

Blending the stacked areas to make the building more coherent, added green roof feature.

The stacking structures are a loose indication of program separation. They intersect into each other at various points, creating multiple double height spaces to imply the transition of programs as well as floors.

Chinatown Library

Chinatown Library

Segovia Pavilion

Named after an American painter, the park has an artistic history. To make that connection, the main program being offered is the drawing pods posed at various heights and orientations for painters to frame and document the city/land scape. The tree like structures on the bottom resembles the vegetation on site, also provide an extra semi private space for users to occupy.

The saie pavilion is the case study for the project. Inspired by its structural elements, the wooden pavilion on the site of plaza Jardín de Mauricio Fromkes. The structure provides a extra viewpoint for the users to discover a different perspective of the city.

Segovia Pavilion

Segovia Pavilion

Segovia Pavilion

Segovia Pavilion

Segovia Pavilion

Segovia Pavilion

The Watchtower

The Watchtower is an exploration of construction details of a wood light frame structure. The tower consists of 2 floors with a slanted roof with one drip point to repel water. The details of double framing members are shown in the model at 1 : 25 scale.

Architectonic Systems

The Cavity Wall Cladding Detail

The cavity wall section explores the construction details of a brick cladding cavity wall with CMU bricks and a waterproofed roof with parapet wall. The section contains two stories, with identical window openings.

Architectonic Systems

This Detail explores the construction of a brick cladding system attached to a steel frame. It outlines the detail of girder, beam, columns, and joists. Same opening as the cavity wall.

Revit Plans

The office renovation aims to rearrange the partition walls to resolve the glaring issue the office has been facing for a long facing as well as adding conference rooms to accommodate more flexible remote working access. The new configuration would allow for 75% occupancy of the total number of employees. New technology will be included in the new meeting spaces, shown in the elevations. The solar studies compare various shading designs for the main studio.

Office Renovation

Photography

Sheep in Snow

Crane Beach Grass

Iron Frame